I have funding for a postdoctoral position starting next spring, on
an NSF-funded project (from the Long-Term Research in Environmental
Biology program). The field work is conducted at the Rocky Mountain
Biological Laboratory, at 9,500 feet altitude in Colorado, and
focuses on a set of 30 plots established in 1973 in which all flowers
(about 90 species) are counted every other day for the entire growing
season. The monitoring of environmental effects on the phenology and
abundance of flowering will continue, complemented by experiments
manipulating temperature, precipitation, and snowmelt, and addition
of a pollinator component in collaboration with Dr. Rebecca Irwin
(Dartmouth College). I will be at the Ecological Society's annual
meeting in Albuquerque next week if you want to meet with me to talk
about this project. If you're interested but won't be at the
meeting, contact me by e-mail. If you have ideas about how to take
advantage of this long-term data set (over 3 million flowers
counted!), I am always glad to collaborate. Representative data sets
are available at http://www.lib.umd.edu/drum/handle/1903/13.
David Inouye
Dr. David W. Inouye, Director
Graduate Program in Sustainable Development and
Conservation Biology
Room 1201, Biology/Psychology Building
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-4415
301-405-6946
[email protected]
FAX 301-314-9358
For the CONS home page, go to http://www.umd.edu/CONS
